McGregor: I felt like a concrete block
Chad Mendes is one of the featherweight division’s hardest punchers and he landed solid punches more than once, but Conor McGregor says he didn’t feel anything.
Chad Mendes is one of the featherweight division’s hardest punches and he landed solid punches more than once, but Conor McGregor says he didn’t feel anything:
“He has heavy shots, he’s put people away, but I didn’t feel nothing,” McGregor said of Mendes at UFC 189’s post-fight press conference. “I don’t feel anything when these featherweights hit me. I feel like a concrete block.”
“He might have thrown an overhand. He threw an elbow that split me on the eye. That was one. But then every other one was glancing, and every shot I was like, ‘eh-eh.’ That’s what I kept saying. ‘Nope. Nope. Eh-eh.’ So I felt I was preserving energy, being efficient. Then when the opportunity arose to go back to the feet, I attacked the gut.
“Them teeps to the gut, them side kicks to the gut, they don’t look like much,” McGregor continued. “To the naked eye, they don’t look like much. Only me and him know about it. Only me and the opponent know about it. But they suck rounds out of you. So that’s what happened. His body, he was searching for his gas tank, and I was stabbing him in the gas tank. Then the straight shots landed, the roundhouse, the spinning kicks. I felt the fight went exactly as I said it would, like they usually do.”